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Each morning of the Festival, Around the Mall will publish a list of events to help you navigate the National Mall and get the most out of your visit. This year’s event features three programs: Campus and Community: Public and Land-grant Universities and the USDA at 150, Creativity and Crisis: Unfolding The AIDS Memorial Quilt, and Citified: Arts and Creativity East of the Anacostia River. Come celebrate summer with ten days of food, music, dancing, storytelling, culture and more.

Campus and Community: Public and Land-grant Universities and the USDA at 150

 

Morrill Performing Arts Center

11:00 AM—12:00 PM      University of Hawai’i Ensemble

12:00 PM—1:00 PM        University of Texas–Pan American Mariachi Aztlán

1:00 PM—2:00 PM          West Virginia University Steel Band

2:00 PM—3:00 PM         University of Hawai’i's Hula Halau Unukupukupu

3:00 PM—4:00 PM         Guernsey Brothers

4:00 PM—5:30 PM         West Virginia University Steel Band and UTPA Mariachi Aztlán

 

Commons Discussion

11:00 AM—11:45 AM       Research into Action: Animal Research

11:45 AM—12:30 PM       Lifelong Learning: Beyond the Classroom

12:30 PM—1:15 PM         Reinventing Agriculture: Sustainable Crops of the Future

1:15 PM—2:00 PM           Opening Doors: Diversity & the LGUs Today

2:00 PM—2:45 PM          Sustainable Solutions: Feed the World, Power the Planet

2:45 PM—3:30 PM          The Next 150 Years: Expanding Community Engagement in the Future

3:30 PM—4:15 PM          Building on Tradition: Traditional Material in the Classroom

4:15 PM—5:00 PM         The Land-grant Tradition: USDA/LGU Connections

5:00 PM—5:30 PM         Transforming Communities: The Pinhook Research Project

 

Smithsonian U

11:00 AM—11:30 AM     Honeybees: In Art, Warfare, Love, and Agriculture

11:30 AM—12:00 PM     Erasing Pinhook:  How One Black Missouri Town Disappeared

12:00 PM—12:30 PM     The Beauty, Bounty, and Benefits of Beer

12:30 PM—1:00 PM       Sustainable Agriculture: Success and Challenges

1:00 PM—1:30 PM         Mandible-Smacking Good: Insect Eating Here and Around the World

1:30 PM—2:00 PM         History of Gifford Pinchot

2:00 PM—2:30 PM        Mourning in America

2:30 PM—3:00 PM        Pet Overpopulation and What Can Be Done About It

3:00 PM—3:30 PM        Digital Art and Virtual Environments

3:30 PM—4:00 PM        History of the USDA’s Arboretum on the Mall, 1867-1942

4:00 PM—4:30 PM       Field Adventures in Mite Biology

4:30 PM—5:00 PM       Felix E. Grant Jazz Archives

5:00 PM—5:30 PM       Community Visioning

 

Test Kitchen

11:00 AM—11:45 PM    Food Safe Families

12:00 PM—12:45 PM    Native American Cooking

1:00 PM—1:45 PM        Vermont Maple Syrup

2:00 PM—2:45 PM       Specialty Crop Cooking

3:00 PM—3:45 PM       Food Explorations

4:00 PM—5:30 PM       Healthy and Sustainable Eating

 

Creativity and Crisis: Unfolding the AIDS Memorial Quilt

 

Red Hot Stage

11:00 AM—11:45 AM    The NAMES Performers

11:45 PM— 12:30 PM    The NAMES Performers

12:30 PM—1:15 PM       The NAMES Performers

1:15 PM —2:00 PM        Spoken Word

2:00 PM—2:45 PM        The NAMES Performers

2:45 PM —3:30 PM        The NAMES Performers

3:30 PM —4:15 PM        Spoken Word

4:15 PM—5:00 PM         The NAMES Performers

5:00 PM—5:30 PM        A Conversation about Arts and Advocacy

 

Giving Voice Stage

11:00 AM—11:45 AM    Quilt Rituals

11:45 PM— 12:30 PM    Healing Arts and Care Giving

12:30 PM—1:15 PM       Market Street Stories

1:15 PM —2:00 PM        Science and Public Health

2:00 PM —3:00 PM       NPR Talk of the Nation: Panel Makers, Quilt History, and Body Mapping

3:00 PM —4:00 PM       NPR Talk of the Nation: Citified Program

4:15 PM—5:00 PM         The Quilt Volunteer Experience

5:00 PM—5:30 PM        Reflections on The Quilt Display

 

Citified: Arts and Creativity East of the Anacostia River

 

Panorama Room

11:00 AM—11:45 AM     Dancing With A Purpose

11:45 AM—12:30 PM     Hip-Hop: Head Roc

12:30 PM—1:30 PM       Hand Dancing: Smooth & Eazy

1:30 PM—2:30 PM         Soul & Funk: Faycez U Know

2:30 PM—3:30 PM        Dancing With A Purpose

3:30 PM—4:30 PM        Step Dance: The Taratibu Youth Association

4:30 PM—5:30 PM        Hand Dancing: Smooth & Eazy

 

Good Hope and Naylor Corner

11:00 AM—11:45 AM      Soul & Funk Workshop: Faycez U Know and Christylez Bacon

11:45 PM— 12:30 PM     Storytelling: Master-Griot Storyteller Baba-C

12:30 PM—1:30 PM       Dance Workshop: The Taratibu Youth Association

1:30 PM—2:30 PM          Hip Hop: Christylez Bacon

2:30 PM—3:30 PM         Storytelling: Master-Griot Storyteller Baba-C

3:30 PM—4:30 PM         Hip-Hop: Head Roc and Melani Douglass

4:30 PM—5:30 PM         Hip Hop: Christylez Bacon

 

Douglass Hall

11:00 AM—11:45 AM    Ongoing activities

11:45 PM— 12:30 PM    BK Adams and Public Art

12:30 PM—1:30 PM      Quilting: Daughters of Dorcas & Sons

1:30 PM—2:30 PM        Melani Douglass

2:30 PM—3:30 PM       BK Adams and Public Art

3:30 PM—4:30 PM       Quilting: Daughters of Dorcas & Sons

4:30 PM—5:30 PM       Ongoing activities

 

Evening Concert

 

Morrill Performing Arts Center

6:00 PM—7:30 PM Azerbaijani Mugham Music featuring Imamyar Hasanov and Pezhham Akhavass